Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
Family movie 🍿 average~~~~
怀疑我对欧阳万成是有滤镜的，不然他和never have i ever的男主共演一部cheesy圣诞喜剧，并且我还觉得能看，实在是离谱！攀岩梭罗肉食和bobsled是和tag不合适的理由吗。（确实蛮喜欢baby it's cold outside改编大家都应该一起喝lemon lacroix）
Jingyang made it, finally!
Jimmy O Yang太没有男主相了…完全跟大美女Nina不搭…
五星给欧阳万成。这么白的电影类别里他能当男主就是圣诞奇迹了。以及他演得很细腻，我们这种从小就长得不好看，爱而不得的悲伤，他演得特别好
有点儿stereotypical，但是没有让人感觉特别讨厌。不过我又知道些什么呢，那天晚上面完SN 的on site用甜酒大醉了一场。
还行，恭喜Josh啦，终于不是标准的王子公主故事啦，耶嘿
是温馨美好的爱情剧，为了反转而反转，只能说剧情老套，女主演技一般，男主还是去说脱口秀吧。
Jimmy O Yang这个自带人设感觉是很难脱掉了😂
圣诞电影*2，其实剧情还蛮扯的，毕竟男主的颜值太没有说服力了，而且是他欺骗在先，最终还是女生反思自己的错。但依旧是蛮可爱的电影。三点五分吧，还算ok的电影啦。
今年的第一部圣诞电影🥳。俗套但是看的过程很舒服温暖的电影，最后love actually的套路还是被感动到了。欧阳乃文很惊喜，nina瘦脱相了但还是好美。虽然电影是关于透过外表注重彼此性格脾气是否相符合的主题，但是带入生活里，丑陋且无趣的男人比比皆是，但凡有像男主角这样温柔体贴的就是屎里淘金。结合众多美女配丑男的现象，我不能打高分。
such a cliché 这种Asian男和白女的搭配感觉也有特意讨好亚洲观众之嫌
奶奶的肩膀窄的，加上头大，看着就像是那种放车上的摇头小人😂
hahaha，美女网恋白人帅哥，结果屏幕后的是亚裔极客。一个圣诞节租女友的故事，夹杂假戏真做，兄弟争宠等等等等~男主风趣机智让我想到了郭麒麟哈哈哈。
三十年河东三十年河西，jing yang都开始拍爱情片啦
编辑是不是疯了？即使是圣诞电影 也不能这么拍吧？
电车男和大美女真的太违和了，看不下去。这男演员完全可以眼一些科幻题材的片子，为啥硬要演爆谷爱情片？看这种片的人（例如我）就是想看个帅哥美女上演烂俗情节，我做错了什么？如果是奈飞想讨好中国观众的话，就太错了
和love actually的连结 加一星
好无聊，而且jimmy o yang本人多么可爱有魅力的男的，为什么对亚男的刻板印象是他就算幽默只要长得不健壮不帅气就也没什么魅力呢，太白人视角了
展现出真实的自己就会有人喜欢你这件事只会发生在浪漫喜剧电影里 真实世界只看脸和钱 Nina真是美得让人心悸
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